Party Tonight · Mordecai And The Rigbys

106 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 30-37 and 58-65, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
PARTY TONIGHT · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 1 is a fill, 30 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-19.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Party Tonight?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Party Tonight hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Party Tonight?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 106.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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